Lists of Bests: daydreambeliever82's "List of books to read in '08" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/47656 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:21:51 GMT en-us 0 50 45 0 0 Harlot's Ghost http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3354609 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> The Greatest Generation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3322382 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3322382"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01KGNZYFB3L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Brokaw</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393061310.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> Diplomacy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2596867 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Kissinger</div> The Power of Myth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10206 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10206"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385418868.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43057146_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Campbell</div> The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism In The Information Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26062 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26062"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0826215688.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Meyer</div> The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970172 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970172"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307264890.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63115 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63115"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375756760.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438518_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plutarch</div> Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/237905 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/237905"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375756779.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plutarch</div> Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3324 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3324"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044789X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> Bel Canto (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Patchett</div> The Keep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2392078 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennifer Egan</div> The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3354610 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3354610"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01d84slEtrL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabor Boritt</div> The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3121851 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3121851"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/015ES2K4G4L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjorie Williams</div> I Am America (And So Can You!) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785900 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2785900"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11JPzV95lQL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Colbert</div> Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951803 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2951803"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/112ZHs-aUvL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.J. Langguth</div> The Trojan War: A New History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2980455 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2980455"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11CxV4hufCL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barry Strauss</div> Jamestown, the Buried Truth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1503319 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1503319"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0813925630.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44821681_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William M. Kelso</div> Living History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67683 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67683"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008EH6I2.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hillary Rodham Clinton</div> Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2633391 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Burns</div> Thomas Jefferson: A Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/451699 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/451699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060976179.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willard Sterne Randall</div> Do You Speak American? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1497453 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1497453"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156032880.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert MacNeil</div> The Lottery: And Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92378 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92378"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529531.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shirley Jackson</div> Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3354611 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3354611"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01F4LmYh5lL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stacy Mitchell</div> The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18634 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18634"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722017.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rainer Maria Rilke</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> Assassination Vacation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133468 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133468"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074326004X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Vowell</div> Empire Falls (HBO Tie-in) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320548 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320548"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307275132.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Russo</div> A Confederacy of Dunces http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/973714 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/973714"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807126063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kennedy Toole</div> Les Misérables (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451525264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> The Secret History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71029 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71029"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400031702.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donna Tartt</div> The Republic of Plato http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14330 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14330"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465069347.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13972 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13972"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528816.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Hamilton</div> Asfixia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2477210 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2477210"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/9875661708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chuck Palahniuk</div> The Law of Dreams: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2958993 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2958993"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11UtW4DbFLL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Behrens</div> Dracula (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/161918 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/161918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312241704.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bram Stoker</div> Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39622 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39622"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743487583.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/828866 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/828866"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060786507.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287153 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287153"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/069103656X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45091743_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</div> The Turn of the Screw: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1013789 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1013789"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/039395904X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> All the King's Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3949"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156004801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Penn Warren</div> Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2615107 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2615107"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080271515X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45112518_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas Ostler</div> Of God and Madness: A Historical Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2886252 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2886252"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01zsHIYL0hL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. Byram Karasu</div> Foucault's Pendulum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2169760 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2169760"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/015603297X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45469722_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div>